Foreign Relations of the United States, 1961–1963, Volume
XXIV, Laos Crisis
List of Abbreviations
- AID, Agency for
International Development
- ARMA, Army
Attache
- ARVN, Army of the
Republic of Vietnam
- ASAP, as soon as
possible
- bn, battalion
- CAT, Civil Air
Transport CENTO, Central Treaty Organization
- ChiComs, Chinese
Communists
- CHMAAG, Chief,
Military Assistance Advisory Group
- CHPEO, Chief,
Programs Evaluation Office
- CIA, Central
Intelligence Agency
- CINCARPAC,
Commander, United States Army, Pacific
- CINCPAC, Commander
in Chief, Pacific
- CINCPACFLT,
Commander in Chief, Pacific Fleet
- COMUSMACV,
Commander, United States Military Assistance Command, Vietnam
- Confe, series
indicator for telegrams to the United States Delegation at the Conference on
Laos in Geneva
- DCM, Deputy Chief of
Mission
- DEPCHJUSMAG,
Deputy Chief, Joint United States Military Assistance Group
- Deptel, Department
of State telegram
- Dir, Director
- DNC, Democratic
Neutralist Committee
- DRV, Democratic
Republic of Vietnam
- Embtel, Embassy
telegram
- FAL, Forces Armees de
Laos (Lao Armed Forces)
- FAR, Forces Armees du
Royaume (Royal Armed Forces)
- FE, Bureau of Far
Eastern Affairs, Department of State
- Fecon, telegram
series indicator for telegrams from the United States Delegation at the
Conference on Laos in Geneva
- FBIS, Foreign
Broadcast Information Service
- FM, Foreign
Minister
- FRC, Federal Records
Center
- FYI, for your
information
- GOF, Government of
France
- H, Bureau of
Congressional Relations, Department of State
- HM, His/Her
Majesty
- HMG, His/Her Majesty’s
Government
- ICC, International
Control Commission
- IO, Bureau of
International Organization Affairs, Department of State
- IMF, International
Monetary Fund
- ISA, Office of the
Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
- JCS, Joint Chiefs of
Staff
- JUSMAG, Joint
United States Military Assistance Group
- KMT, Kuomintang
(Nationalist Party), Republic of China
- L, Office of the Legal
Adviser, Department of State
- L/FE, Assistant Legal
Adviser for Far Eastern Affairs
- LP, Luang
Prabang
- LPK, Lao political
party
- LTAG, Lao Training
Advisory Group
- MA, Military
Attache
- MAAG, Military
Assistance Advisory Group
- NCO, non-commissioned
officer
- NIE, National
Intelligence Estimate
- NLHX, (NLHZ), Neo Lao
Hak Xat (Zat), the political arm of the Pathet Lao
- NNC, Neutral Nations
Commission
- NSC, National Security
Council
- NVN, North
Vietnam
- OSD, Office of the
Secretary of Defense
- PACAF, Pacific Air
Force
- PARU, Police Aerial
Resupply Unit
- PDJ, Plaine des Jarres
(Plain of Jars)
- PEO, Programs
Evaluation Office
- PL, Pathet Lao
- PM, Prime
Minister
- POLAD, Political
Adviser
- POW, prisoner of
war
- RCT, regimental combat
team
- RTAF, Royal Thai Air
Force
- RTG, Royal Thai
Government
- S, Office of the
Secretary of State
- SEA, Southeast
Asia
- SEATO, Southeast
Asia Treaty Organization
- Secto, series
indicator for telegrams from the Secretary of State while away from
Washington
- SNIE, Special
National Intelligence Estimate
- SOV, Office of Soviet
Union Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
- SVN, South
Vietnam
- Tosec, series
indicator for telegrams to the Secretary of State while away from
Washington
- UK, United
Kingdom
- UN, United
Nations
- UNGA, United Nations
General Assembly
- UPI, United Press
International
- USAF, United States
Air Force
- USG, United States
Government
- USOM, United States
Operations Mission
- USSR, Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics
- VM, Viet Minh
- XK, Xieng
Khouang